At the crossroads... Productive Diversity

Dr Peter Shergold, Public Service Commissioner, on multiculturalism and the support towards it.

Created:

1995

Date Added:

19 July 2002

Source:

Interview for Making Multicultural Australia, 1995.

Format:

mov (Quicktime);

File size:

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Length:

23 secs

Transcript

DR PETER SHERGOLD
Public Service Commissioner, Public Service and Merit Protection Commission, and Former Member, National Multicultural Advisory Council

As long as multiculturalism was either seen as ethnic dancing or social welfare, it really wasn’t going to get the support that it required at senior levels. Not just in PM and C (Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet) but in Finance and Treasury and so on. And so, there was a conscious campaign to give it that economic dimension which has now been taken up and elaborated and called productive diversity and so on.